Improvement in gate-latches



anathema time ar Letters Patent No. 110,957, dated January 17, 1871 vIMPROVEMENT IN 'GATE-.-LATCHE$- R The Schedule referred to in theseLetters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN COLE, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomeryand State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable improvement in Gate-Latches; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and'exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a front elevation, and pFigure? is a side .elcration of the latch,

This invention consists in the arrangement of a suspended swinginglatch, pivoted at its upper end in a 7 socket attached to the gate-andprovided at its lower end with a triangular foot projectinghorizontallyfrom the latch, with a'catch madefiist to the gate-post and.

operating, as the gateficloses, to throw the latch to one side until thegat' latch swings back in the gate, the catchzthn'p serving theadditional purnose of a stop 'to the gate.

strikes the catch, when the, nt of the catch and fastens i In thedrawing Ais the'gate;

B, the post to which the gate is hung;

B, the post to which the gate is fastened by the latch;

G, the catch onxthe post B;

D, the latch-bar;

E, the socket in which thelateh is pivoted; and F, the triangular footon the lower end of the latchhar.

I claim as my invention l The catch 0, serving also as a stop tothegate, the latch-bar D, provided with the triangular foot F and dependingvertically from the gate, and the socket E, all constructed and ocrating as specified.

In testimony that; claim the above I have hereiunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses. I

- CALVIN COLE.

Witnesses: l

Rom. B. Extm, 'W. 'F. Elms;-

GILMOR, OF SAME

